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Plinkey posted:Pointy noses are the best noses. Concurring opinion: 
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StandardVC10 posted:Concurring opinion: What is that nose? I'll guess F-15 or Super Hornet...
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Jun 11, 2013 05:20
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~Coxy posted:How far in advance do you have to book? I booked my tour the day before so apparently not much! 
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Jun 11, 2013 05:32
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Previa_fun posted:What is that nose? I'll guess F-15 or Super Hornet... I think it's an F-15 but... I don't remember.  Raytheon is the operator, that much I'm fairly clear on.
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Jun 11, 2013 05:33
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StandardVC10 posted:Concurring opinion: The angle of the Korean Air planes makes it look like some kind of V-Tail and now I really want a V-Tail widebody.
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Jun 11, 2013 14:35
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Calspan has a Saab 340A with an F-16 radar system grafted on. I've never even thought to take any pictures of it when it's been up in my hangar for maintenance, so here's someone else's picture. Thanks, someone else!
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Jun 11, 2013 18:23
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StandardVC10 posted:Concurring opinion: What are the anus extenders for? Are those hush kits?
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Jun 11, 2013 20:16
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Advent Horizon posted:What are the anus extenders for? Are those hush kits? Precisely.
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Jun 11, 2013 20:18
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Blistex posted:"Kill Me. . . Kill Me. . . " This got a legit chuckle from me.
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Jun 11, 2013 21:57
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From this article: http://imgur.com/SjDdv6B When the hell did this happen?
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Jun 12, 2013 17:14
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Groda posted:From this article: I *think* that's one of those planes that's used for filming TV shows and stuff, probably the one at stansted. For some obscure reason they keep doing weird stuff like bolting those things to it, or T tails or stuff like that... 'whatever the client wants' I guess. Apparently it's at Dunsfold, some info on it here: http://www.pprune.org/african-aviation/385106-top-gear-747-a.html (It's from the recent Casino Royale film) SybilVimes fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jun 12, 2013 |
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Jun 12, 2013 17:21
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It's also in the background of almost every shot in Top Gear.
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Jun 12, 2013 18:09
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The engines are like that because it was in Casino Royale.
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Jun 12, 2013 19:01
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hobbesmaster posted:It's also in the background of almost every shot in Top Gear. iirc, it sits on the runway that extends SE from Chicago/Bentley, but the camera angles usually pick it up when the cars are running through Bacharach and Gambon:  Also, it occasionally is a prop used in the shows themselves, this one from an episode where the boys had to review tractors:  And if you want a full low-down on the plane: http://travel.usatoday.com/alliance...-Setup/598021/1
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Jun 13, 2013 01:29
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Groda posted:From this article: Was he stowing away in a wheel well and he fell out when the gear came down?
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Jun 13, 2013 04:22
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Yes. He definitely would have been unconscious, and I imagine dead already. Also that USA Today link is broken. Edit: Now it's working again. Must have been a bug.
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Jun 13, 2013 04:45
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BAE 737 CAT-Bird Flying JSF test bed I remember my group getting asked for any volunteers to sit inside a cramped 737 on the tarmac at Mojave stringing harnesses and updating drawings. One one hand, it sounded neat to be around that stuff. On the other hand, dying of heat stroke in a tin can in the desert sounds lame. The folks who came back didn't seem like they had a very good time.
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Jun 13, 2013 05:12
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YF19pilot posted:iirc, it sits on the runway that extends SE from Chicago/Bentley, but the camera angles usually pick it up when the cars are running through Bacharach and Gambon: Man, all the times I saw that jumbo on the show and somehow I never twigged on the engine pods. Weird how you can just not notice something like that.
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Jun 13, 2013 05:23
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Don't believe I've seen this mentioned, but first flight of the Airbus A350XWB is scheduled for tomorrow at 10 AM Toulouse time.
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Jun 13, 2013 21:46
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8th-samurai posted:The Everett plant is still the largest building in the world by volume, seriously it's big as hell. Yeah it is. It's a third of a mile walk from the parking lot to my desk.
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Jun 13, 2013 22:01
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Understeer posted:Don't believe I've seen this mentioned, but first flight of the Airbus A350XWB is scheduled for tomorrow at 10 AM Toulouse time. gently caress, I didn't even know they had started construction. Last I had heard, they were still playing paper-airplane-specs to get optimal positioning over the 787.
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Jun 13, 2013 22:26
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MrYenko posted:gently caress, I didn't even know they had started construction. Last I had heard, they were still playing paper-airplane-specs to get optimal positioning over the 787. 
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Jun 13, 2013 22:28
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loving Europeans are some CRAFTY motherfuckers.
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Jun 13, 2013 22:33
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I still don't think it's a good-looking airplane, but the A350 definitely photographs much worse than it looks in-person. I can't get past the nose. It's also bigger than the pictures would have you believe.
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Jun 13, 2013 22:34
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Understeer posted:I still don't think it's a good-looking airplane, but the A350 definitely photographs much worse than it looks in-person. I can't get past the nose. Look at the tug. Thats a big loving airplane.
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Jun 13, 2013 22:38
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I've been led to understand that they're kind of keeping the A350 on the hush-hush at the moment, because fancy rollouts kind of look dumb if the project turns into a headache afterwards as has been common recently.
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Jun 13, 2013 22:41
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Understeer posted:I still don't think it's a good-looking airplane, but the A350 definitely photographs much worse than it looks in-person. I can't get past the nose. It looks like it smushed its nose into something 
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Jun 13, 2013 22:51
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A rack of CFD machines, no doubt. The winglets, on the other hand, are a work of art and much more worthy of the "sharklet" name that ended up with the A320 blended winglet.
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Jun 13, 2013 22:54
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They're going to be livestreaming the maiden flight too: http://www.a350xwbfirstflight.com/ Tune in from 7.00 UTC which I think is 9am Toulouse time, so there'll be an hour of PR to watch.
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Jun 13, 2013 22:57
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Interesting comparison (not my image or data so it may be wrong, but eh)
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Jun 13, 2013 22:59
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The 777-300 and the A350-1000 are almost identical in size. It doesn't do a good job showing the size pairs.
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Jun 13, 2013 23:08
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Hey Seattlites They're giving away a free B-17 ride for 2 for father's day up at the Flying Heritage event this saturday, if you win the drawing. I'm pretty sure I'll check it out. http://www.flyingheritage.com/Content/Docs/flightoflifetime_poster2013.pdf Edit: For reference, the Collings Foundation's tour is there this weekend with their B-17, B-24 and P-51. http://www.collingsfoundation.org/menu.htm
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Jun 13, 2013 23:11
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That's accurate, based on what I've read about the A350...it covers the upper end of the 767/787/A330 market while also finally giving Airbus an aircraft that can truly compete with the 777, especially the B/C market versions (the -300ER and -200LR to an extent). And yes, Airbus and Boeing are keeping things very low-key in light of the PR nightmares they've suffered in the last decade. That said the rumour on the banana forums is that the A350 might make a flyover of the Paris Air Show in a week's time. I have my doubts about that, but it would be a hell of a PR stunt.
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Jun 13, 2013 23:12
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MrChips posted:That said the rumour on the banana forums is that the A350 might make a flyover of the Paris Air Show in a week's time. I have my doubts about that, but it would be a hell of a PR stunt. They've painted "A350" across the belly. Normally, not too many reasons to do so.
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Jun 13, 2013 23:20
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Understeer posted:They've painted "A350" across the belly. Normally, not too many reasons to do so. Eh, lots of airliners do this now, just on regular schemes even- Emirates, Virgin Atlantic, and Qatar Airways come to mind. Boeing also did it on the 747-8.
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Jun 13, 2013 23:21
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True, but it's never been a part of the house Airbus livery. Not even for the Belugas or flight test A320s that have been repainted in the past few months. We'll know one way or the other in a few days.
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Jun 13, 2013 23:37
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Waiting for my partner to go pee (her bladder is the size of a walnut)
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Jun 13, 2013 23:39
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Polymerized Cum posted:Waiting for my partner to go pee (her bladder is the size of a walnut) Like I always say...I'd rather have a two-hour bladder and three hours of fuel than the other way around.
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Jun 13, 2013 23:43
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Jacked this off my twitter feed.  original tweet posted:
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It's a DC-10. They should fill the fuselage with fire retardant, so when it inevitably spirals into the wildfire it will put it out.
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